Loneliness Quotes - Page 3

• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Night, Shadow

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.99, New Directions Publishing

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Mean, Alcohol

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• When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Being Alone, Men, Space

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.708, Delphi Classics

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• When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

  Alfred Polgar

  Being Alone, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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• you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

  David Archuleta

  Lonely, Being Alone, Self

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
  solitude is herb tea and soft music.

  Pearl Cleage

  Coffee, Being Alone, Night

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Lonely, Love You

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.362

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• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Lonely, Being Alone

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• How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Lonely, Tired

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

  Paul Tillich

  Solitude, Bears, Loneliness And Solitude

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

  Sylvia Plath

  Dark, Long, Soul

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Solitude, One Thing

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

  John Steinbeck

  Trying, Literature, Being Lonely

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

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• Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.

  Neil T Anderson

  Meaningful, Fellowship With God, Christ

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Lonely, Being Alone, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Faith, Lonely

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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  Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Sad, Lonely

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Hero, Believe

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• When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I realized how very little I had in common with them – the career dads, the responsible and diligent moms – and I was soon filled with dread and loneliness. I locked in on the smug feeling of superiority that married couples give off and that permeated the air – the shared assumptions, the sweet and contented apathy, it all lingered everywhere – despite the absence in the room of anyone single at which to aim this.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mom, Sweet, Couple

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Lunar Park”, p.158, Pan Macmillan

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• Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

  John Berendt

  Love, Loving Others

  John Berendt (2005). “The City of Falling Angels”, Penguin Group USA

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• Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Joy, Stories

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